ENEMY ADMITS BEING DRIVEN FROM JERUSALEM
WANTED TO PREVENT FIGHTING ON SACRED GROUND. (Received 1.10 p.m.) ■ AMSTERDAM, December 12. . A German semi-official statement admits that the evacuation of Jerusalem was involuntary, but declares that the reason the city fell was the TurkoGerman desire to prevent ground sacred to all God-fearing peoples becoming the scene of Woody fighting. It adds that the town is militarily WQithlces.— (Renter.) *
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 297, 13 December 1917, Page 5
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